Improved clothes-drier



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Letters Patent No. 103,712, dated May 3l, 1870.

rMPRovE CLOTHES-Darrin.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent andvmaklng part of the same.

I'o all whom. Iit may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSHUA BnlGGs, ot' Peterborough, in the county ot' Hillsborough and State ot` New Hampshire, have invented an Improved Clothes- Drier; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawing which accompanies and forms part of this specification, is a description of my invention sufticient to enable those skilled in the art to practiceit.

My invent-ion relates to the construction of that class of clothes-driers in which aseries of bars or arms is pivoted to a bracket or plate, to be attached to a wall or other vertical surface, so that the seve- .ral bars can be swung out horizontally, to constitute as many clothes-holding devices as there are bars, or can be swung back so as to close together in one vertical plane or series.

In the common drier ot' this class the arms are all 'pvoted upon one vertical pin, and, when they are tion with reference to this provision that my inven- Y tion consists.

The ,drawing represents a drier or part of a drier embodying my improvement.

Figure l shows a plan.

Figure l2 a front elevation, and

Figure 3 an end view ofthe drier.

u, denotes a plate, having ears, b b, in each otwhich is a slot c, by means of which the plate is appended tothe wall of a room or any other suitable vertical surface, the plate being hung upon pins projecting from such surface.

From this plate a extends a bracket, c1, which is madein a stepped form, cach part or step c, supporting the inner cud of one of the arms f, each of which arms is jointed to its step e by a pin g. vThe height between each two adjacent steps c is equal to ora little greater than the thickness of cach arm f, so that, when the arms are all swung in toward the plate a, they will all be in one plane, as seen in fig. 3.

The plate ay and its bracket projection ll are' cast in one piece, and the plate a is cast with sockets h, through it, one socket opposite the end of each arm j, the rear end of the arm swinging back into the socket, (when the arm is swung out,) so as to brace the arm and prevent undue strain upon its pivot-piu, the top ot' the socket or a projection yi, under which the end of the arm swings, a'ording a bearing for the inner end ot' the arm, as its outer end is detlectcd by the weight of articles hung thereon.

The arms heilig thus arranged(eacl1 jointed to a separate pivot, and the pivots disposed at a dist-ance l'rom cach other laterally, as seen in tig. 1, and in dii'- ferent horizontal planes, as seen in iig. 2,) it will readily bc seen that the construction enables the arms to assume positions with each arm independent from the others, :ts/seen in fig. I, or to be folded into line, as 'seen in figs. 2 and 3, and that the arms are available to the whole extent ot' the length ot' each, when swung into posit-ion, as seen in iig. I, to enable them to receive articles to be dried.

It will be obvious that the arms may be set in divcrgent positions; but, with thc space between them afforded by my construction, it will generally be found sutiicicnt, for drying purposes, to set 'them parallel, as seen in fig. l, in which parallel position the arms occupy a minimum of space.

lhe bearing-plate may be made of any desirable lengt-h, to receive any desirable number of armsf.

The plate a made with the sockets h and steppcd supporting-plate d, adapted t0 receive and supportin each socket a swinging arm, substantially as shown and described.

Also, the socketed andstepped plate a, combined with the pivoted arms f, substantially as shown and described. I

JOSHUA BRIGGS.

Witnesses:

A. M. PnNnLn'rolr, E. HARRIS J uwlrr. 

